I was wonder if someone could write me a little regular expression. I have some knowledge about these but for some reason i cant pick up everything about them yet.

I'm writing a vbscript that will search a computer for all folders/files and create an xlm file that would be a tree to your entire computer. Dont ask, its just for fun . The problem i get is when a folder starts with an illegal character (ex: -, =, ~, ` ) it gives me an XLM error. So i'm looking to return everything in the folder name unless the folder starts or ends with an illegal character. I'm not sure but i think if the character isnt in the begining or end then its ok for xml.

TY!

I was wonder if someone could write me a little regular expression. I have some knowledge about these but for some reason i cant pick up everything about them yet.

I'm writing a vbscript that will search a computer for all folders/files and create an xlm file that would be a tree to your entire computer. Dont ask, its just for fun . The problem i get is when a folder starts with an illegal character (ex: -, =, ~, ` ) it gives me an XLM error. So i'm looking to return everything in the folder name unless the folder starts or ends with an illegal character. I'm not sure but i think if the character isnt in the begining or end then its ok for xml.

TY!

Added: I was wrong. the illegal character cannot be found anywhere within the strong. I need to strip the entire string. I guess i would need something that would return all the letters and numbers with nothing else.

Right now i have ([A-Za-z0-9]+) which i think will do the trick. But i forgot how to return the results

modify the function I coded for one of your other threads http://www.webmaster-talk.com/asp-fo...alidation.html

change the pattern to be

objRE.pattern = "^(\~|\=|\-|\')"

This will match a -, =, ~ or ' only at the start of a string

remove the ^ symbol from pattern in thread http://www.webmaster-talk.com/asp-fo...egex-help.html

It will then match anywhere in the string

(Threads should be merged at some point)

Merged!

Dave

I would think a better way than changing the name of the directory you report back ( and then won't be able to find because you have the wrong name ) would be to use quotes around the dir names, or to escape the illegal characters somehow.